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Get Out The Balloons: Smashing’s 1st Anniversary
Smashing Magazine is one year old. Over the last year our little weblog has gone through quite a development. We've published 126 articles, trying to address the most important issues, trends and developments related to web design and web-development. We've heard a lot of criticism, but we've also received a ...
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Winners of the Logo Contest
It took us five days in a row to find five best designs for our Smashing Magazine Logo Contest. It was hard and it was a neck-and-neck race for 5 competitors. You can find selected designs in the article Logo Contest - Sketches and Designs.And now we have the winner.It ...
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Logo Contest – Sketches and Designs
It was a tough decision to make. Three weeks ago we've announced the Smashing Magazine Logo Contest for the most creative, clean and fresh logo for our site. We've received over 190 Logos from 105 participants, living all around the world. We had a big choice and it wasn't easy ...
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Smashing Magazine Logo Contest
Few days ago we've re-aligned the Smashing Magazine web-site, changed the theme and - most importantly - re-designed the navigation menu. So far so good. However, in the end we've found ourselves in a dilemma - Smashing Magazine doesn't have a proper logo, which would mark our identity and relate ...
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8 Things You Should Know About Smashing Magazine
You probably expected a list, and in fact you'll get one. Since there have been many misunderstandings going on about Smashing Magazine, we'd like to explain, why we do what we do and why we are doing it this way. Please spread the word if you'd like to support us, ...
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- Smashing Community WordPress Theme: Vote Now! (5.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
- 8 Days Left To Enter The Typographic Layout Design Contest (5.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
- Smashing Highlights 2009
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- Smashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway! (4.76 out of 5; votes: 41)
- The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours? (4.52 out of 5; votes: 23)
- The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now! (4.50 out of 5; votes: 20)
- 40+ Books For Professional Design & Development (4.50 out of 5; votes: 2)
- The Smashing Book Is Released: Buy Now! (4.49 out of 5; votes: 125)
- Smashing Network Update: Add Widget To Your Site and New Members (4.46 out of 5; votes: 13)
- Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
(4.21 out of 5; votes: 248) - Smashing Textures Contest (4.00 out of 5; votes: 1)
- Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: Join in! (3.13 out of 5; votes: 8)
Hardware Giveaway: 5,000 Comments Challenge!
Update (27/02): we received 9000 comments – we hit the 5,000 mark! And the winners are: 1) graphic card goes to Joshua Lawson (#5533) from Sewell, NJ; 2) the mouse goes to Gareth (#5651) from Cape Town, South Africa; 3) the headphones go to Catalin (#8598) from Bucharest, Romania. Congratulations! ...
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Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
Over the last weeks we have again selected dozens of useful development and web design-related books, we’ve bought all of them and we wanted to give them all away to our readers — for free. Unfortunately, it turned out that some books were unavailable, some were sold out and some ...
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Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
As you may or may not know, we like to smash things. Apart from releasing free icons, themes and wallpapers, every now and again we pick a dozen of professional design and web-development-books, buy them and give them away to our readers — for free, of course. We genuinely appreciate ...
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40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. To become or remain professional, you permanently need to improve your design and programming skills, be aware of new approaches and now how other designers and developers achieve both beautiful and effective designs. And to improve your design and programming skills all ...
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Smashing 1st Anniversary Giveaway
On Monday we’ve presented 40+ books for professional design and development. We’ve ordered most of them and are giving them away to our readers. However, if you think that we were planning to celebrate with few excellent books-giveaways, you should think again. Few weeks ago we’ve chosen some of the useful ...
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Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary
It happened again. Today, Smashing Magazine celebrates its second birthday. We are two years old now and we are proud of what we have achieved over these years. To celebrate our anniversary, we could do any number of things. For instance, we could organize a huge giveaway—as we did one ...
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The Smashing Book Is Released: Buy Now!
Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. You can buy the Smashing Book right now. And in case you didn’t know, it’s available here exclusively. The book is available and can be shipped right away.The Smashing ...
Read more... | 1,351 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now!
Update (02/12/2009): The fourth SM Book Newsletter. The books are being sent out now. Pre-ordering isn’t possible any longer. Update (20/11/2009): The third SM Book Newsletter. Update (27/10/2009): The second SM Book Newsletter with detailed explanations of delays and production problems and also with the freely available Chapter 1 (PDF) of the ...
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Smashing Community WordPress Theme: Comment and Win!
While the Smashing Community icon set is being designed and prepared for the release, we would like to ask your opinion about the WordPress theme that you would like us to design. And here’s how it works: you tell us what Wordpress-theme you need, and then we design it together ...
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Smashing Magazine’s Redesign and Smashing Network
Something has changed here today. Smashing Magazine has shaped up. We know that extensive design changes usually create a split echo: some readers are happy and appreciate the additional features and benefits, while others don’t want to see anything change because they’re comfortable in their old habits. However, publishers have ...
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The Smashing Book: Already Got Yours?
Have you gotten your copy of The Smashing Book yet? If not, it may still be worth spending $29.90 for this printed book. The book shares technical tips and best practices on typography, usability, UI design, marketing and color usage. It contains interviews with high profile designers and developers. And ...
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Smashing Community Icon Set: Comment and Win!
Ready for this? Here’s how it works: you tell us what icons you need, and then we design them together with SoftFacade (which recently created the beautiful Smashing Retro Icon Set) and release them for free. And to make it a bit more interesting, we’ll smash six commenters and forum ...
Read more... | 358 CommentsThe Smashing Book: Vote For The Book Cover Now!
The Smashing Book project is now entering its next phase. Based upon your tremendous feedback, we have finalized the concept and the outline for the book. In fact, the topics have been selected and our writers have already started to brainstorm the ideas for their chapters in the book. The ...
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We Have Won Webinale Awards 2008!
In April we have written that Smashing Magazine has been nominated for the Most Valuable Design Website in the Webinale Awards 2008, the award of an international Web conference Webinale which took place in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 26 – 28. The competition awards most useful and innovative sites related ...
Read more... | 246 CommentsSmashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway!
It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for ...
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